soft cap

Bendable spending ceiling

A soft cap is a flexible spending or salary limit that can be exceeded under certain conditions, as opposed to a hard cap which is absolute.

In professional sports, teams may go over a soft cap but face penalties like luxury taxes: The team exceeded the soft cap to sign their star player.

In gaming, a soft cap is a point of diminishing returns where further investment yields less benefit.

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Inflexible upper boundary

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